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Pedantic reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I do think that more tables could probably benefit from the GM utilising more passive checks, automatic success/failure, etc. Take 10... -
Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It's a question of the level of fidelity/resolution into the fictional setting. I don't think there's universal agreement on what...
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Pedantic reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The existence of a problematic aspect of the wall was established when the need for a roll and the DC was determined. At this point...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The problem is a lot of rules consider "resolution" just in terms of success and failure, without spelling out what those mean.
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Color can't be both a criticism of the insincerity of player added detail, and also the reason simulation is impossible. The rocks are...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I've never found this argument persuasive, and I don't like the camps it sets up. There's no need to cede the grounds of system to other...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I don't really agree, because I'm not here to do freeform roleplaying; as such, a GM can "really know their stuff" and it doesn't help...
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Pedantic reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Isn't it? Maybe the phrasing isn't quite right. My experience is that trying to succeed at a task in these games becomes a game of "what...
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Pedantic reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yeah, certainly. I think the narrative systems give players more agency, separate from their characters, to change the fiction, and I...
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Pedantic replied to the thread 3PP Release New Release: Single-Class Synergy, Volume 2: Singular Specialists.Honestly, I find the scholar fills the same space more comfortably anyway.
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Pedantic reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread 3PP Release New crowdfunding coming: Martial Artistry: A Compendium of Combat for A5e and 5e! (AMA!) with Like.
Almost there! Just another $560 to hit the goal!
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Pedantic reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sorry, should have clarified, the detail of this analysis is really only relevant from 3e onwards where both the attacker and defenders...
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Pedantic reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Once you start down that road pretty much all the traditional D&D attributes can seem too lumpy.
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Pedantic reacted to Gimby's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Sure, but as I note above, the difference between a making a save and missing an attack is purely administrative. You can even invert...
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Pedantic replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Sure, but that's just a design problem you can work through. If you accept the thing to be abstracted as presenting a design constraint...